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In 1860, Abraham Lincoln was nominated as the Republican canidate in the presidential election, and ws shortly after elected for the posistion.
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Because South Carolina feared the republican canidate, they quickly seceded from the Union in order to avoid the abolishment of slavery.
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In the early 1861 time period, the entire deep south seceded from the Union to create the Confederate States of America.
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The beginning of the Civil War was marked by the attack on Fort Sumter by Confederate Soldiers. Lincoln called for volunteers to serve in the Union Army in order to "preserve the Union".
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Lincoln issued a proclamation to blockade the coast, seize the Mississippi River to divide the South, and take Richmond, VA.
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Lincoln issued emergency powers to protect national security by suspending laws requiring evidence before citizens could be jailed and closed down newspapers that didn't support the war.
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Although the Battle of Antietam didn't result in a "clear" win for the Union army, 2 good things came out of it for the North: it convonced Britain and France to not support the South, and showed Lincoln that then was the right time to focus on the abolishment of slavery. That is when he delivered the Emancipation Proclamation. It allowed all slaves to be free in the South, it didn't free slaves in border states but gave the North a new reason to fight, and encouraged slaves to escape.
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After the Union victory in Gettysburg, President Lincoln delivered his famous speach, the Gettysburg Address. He spoke on the new freedoms that were to come and that those who died fought for a good cause.
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After he served his 4 terms in office, they citizens re-elected him to serve a second term.
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Under the leadership of President Lincoln and Union General Ulysses S. Grant, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House. Thi smarked the official end of the war.
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Before his assasination, Lincoln delivered one last public speach. He spoke on what reconstruction needed to be done in order to be united again as a country and bring back peace to the nation.
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While watching a performnce, John Wilkes Boothe made his strike on Lincoln in Ford's Theatre. He shot him in the theatre and he died the next day from the womd.
